Ellery Schempp famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.
-- Ellery Schempp

#Constitution

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities.
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.
A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution.
Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor
I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
The substance of the constitution is preserved. That is a fact.

Ellery Schempp famous quotes

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